My Single Mom Life

I need to get a few ink cartridges for my two printers so that I can print stuff out, like pictures, instead of having to use a service to do them, or ask my sister to do them.
Family members have been asking me for ages to send pictures of the teens, and I keep saying that I will, but then I forget, and then when I remember, I remember that I don't have any ink.

My HP Photosmart printer for printing pictures, takes a single cartridge, an HP 110 Triincolor Ink Cartridge, it goes for about $28.00, and I'd like to find it on sale, but the price varies at every single store and e-tailer, so every time I think I have enough money for it somewhere, I get there, and the price has been marked back up again.

My other regular printer for printing out letters and stuff, is a Lexmark, and it takes two cartridges.
A Lexmark #60 for the colors, and a Lexmark #50 for the black.
The #60 color runs about $45.00, and the #50 black runs about $37.00 regular price, so I definitely have to find those when they are on sale.

Why is ink so damn expensive?
And I've tried those refill kits, yeah, never doing that again.
And I'm never doing refurbished ink again either, that was a total waste of money because after printing out about 20 regular pages, just black text, it ran out of ink, so yeah, I was so not happy about that.
I hate having to use a photo printing service, but I do have some credits at one of them, so I am going to use those credits up until I can get some ink for my printers.
Hopefully that will be sometime soon.